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A comment upon Christ's last prayer in the seventeenth of John wherein is opened…
A comment upon Christ's last prayer in the seventeenth of John wherein is opened the union believers have with God and Christ, and the glorious privileges thereof ... / by that faithful and known servant of Christ, Mr. Thomas Hooker ... ; printed from the authors own papers written with his own hand, and attested to be such in an epistle by Thomas Goodwin and Philip Nigh.A comment upon Christ's last prayer in the seventeenth of John wherein is opened the union beleevers have with God and Christ, and the glorious priviledges thereof ... / by that faithful and known servant of Christ, Mr. Thomas Hooker ... ; printed from the authors own papers written with his own hand, and attested to be such in an epistle by Thomas Goodwin and Philip Nye.
London: printed by Peter Cole, 1656
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
So Peter in the shock, the assault came so fierce, that it routed his heart wholly: and David in hast, said, I shall one day perish &c. Psal. 16.11. Or Else We go aside willingly, through the folly and deceivable ⟨p. 141⟩lusts of our carnal mind, which catch at every Twig, hang upon every Hedge, roam and reach after reset by our own devices. Will ye also go away? Joh. 6.67. Jonah hath a fetch of his own, and forlook his own mercies. Jon. 2.8. Sometimes out of sinful discouragements the Soul, like the Body in a fainting sit, cannot see his way, nor his Comfort, nor can it help it self by holding that which is next at hand. Like a man wildering in a dark night, and out of the way, he goes he knows not which way. Isa. 49.14. My God hath forsaken me. This comes thus to be helped, when God settles, and stakes down the soul, that it will not go away, nor be carried away. O! entreat me not to leave thee, Ruth 1. Ashur shall not save us, but with thee, the fatherless finds mercy, Hos. 14.3. When we grow up in Christ, as they, I will wait upon him, that hides his face from the house of Jacob, and will look upward, Isa. 8.17. not inward, outward, downward, backward, when nothing from without moves us, nothing from within stirs us, or makes us turn back, 1 Chron. 29. 18 as they, Dan. 3.16.17. We care not to answer, our God can, and if he please, he will; however, thither they look, and thence they will not go.
So Peter in the shock, the assault came so fierce, that it rowted his heart wholly: and David in hast, faid, I shal one day perish &c.